3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Minnesota Nursing

3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Minnesota Nursing

✅ Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing | Provider #CEP 18292 | Meets Minnesota Board of Nursing CE Criteria | 3 Contact Hours | Only $19.99 | Instant Emailed Certificate | 100% Online & Self-Paced

Earn 3 contact hours toward your Minnesota RN or LPN renewal with an online pharmacology and high-alert medication safety course from a California BRN-approved provider, all for only $19.99. The course covers the medications most likely to cause serious harm, including anticoagulants, insulin, concentrated electrolytes, opioids, and sedation agents, and the safeguards that protect your patients.

Work at your own pace and log in and out as often as you like without losing your progress. There is no final exam. Complete each section and a short course evaluation, and your certificate of completion is emailed to you immediately. Minnesota nurses confirm their own continuing education on the renewal application, so save your certificate for two years after you report the hours in case you are selected for an audit.

✅ Course Details

• Course name: 3 Hours Pharmacology and High-Alert Medications - Minnesota Nursing
• Approved by: California Board of Registered Nursing
• Provider number: CEP 18292
• Minnesota use: Built to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing criteria for acceptable continuing education for RN and LPN renewal
• Contact hours: 3 (each contact hour is 60 minutes of instruction)
• Category: Nursing continuing education for RNs and LPNs
• Format: 100% online, self-paced, text-based course with no final exam
• Instructor: Valeria Garcia, BSN, RN
• Price: $19.99
• Certificate: Emailed instantly when you finish
• Reporting: Minnesota nurses confirm CE on their renewal application; keep your certificate for two years
• Support: Call or text 1-800-698-2770

✅ Who Should Take This Course?

This course is written for:

• Minnesota registered nurses and licensed practical nurses renewing their registration
• Acute care and medical-surgical nurses who give high-alert medications
• Long-term care and home health nurses who manage insulin, anticoagulants, and opioids
• Emergency, critical care, procedural, and perioperative nurses
• Transitional care and discharge nurses who teach patients about high-risk drugs
• Nurses who want a practical pharmacology refresher

✅ Does This Course Satisfy the Minnesota Requirement?

This course provides 3 contact hours toward your Minnesota renewal: 3 of the 24 contact hours registered nurses need, or 3 of the 12 contact hours licensed practical nurses need, in each 24-month participation period. It does not satisfy the full requirement by itself. Minnesota does not require specific subjects, so these hours count toward your total when you complete them during your current participation period.

This course is included in both the 24 Hour Minnesota RN Complete Renewal Package for $34.99 and the 12 Hour Minnesota LPN Complete Renewal Package for $24.99.

✅ Minnesota RN and LPN Continuing Education Requirements

The Minnesota Board of Nursing requires continuing education in every 24-month participation period to renew your registration: 24 contact hours for registered nurses (one hour for each month) and 12 contact hours for licensed practical nurses (one hour for every two months). The Board does not pre-approve providers or courses. Instead, each activity you report must meet the Board's criteria for acceptable continuing education.

• Registered nurses (RN): 24 contact hours every 24-month participation period
• Licensed practical nurses (LPN): 12 contact hours every 24-month participation period
• Shorter or longer periods: The same ratio applies, one hour per month for RNs and one hour per two months for LPNs
• Required subjects: None; content must be designed to enhance your ability to practice nursing
• Contact hour: 60 minutes of instruction
• What makes an activity acceptable: Written objectives, a qualified instructor other than you, completion during your participation period, and a certificate showing the title, date, and contact hours (objectives are not necessary when a health licensing board, such as the California BRN, has approved the CE)
• Audits and records: The Board randomly audits licensees; keep your certificates for two years after you report the hours at renewal

How this course helps: This 3-hour course contributes 3 contact hours toward your Minnesota total. Registered nurses will still need 21 more contact hours and licensed practical nurses 9 more during the same participation period. Because Minnesota has no required subjects, these hours apply to your general total.

✅ When Do Minnesota Nurses Renew?

Minnesota nursing registration renews every 24 months. After your first registration, each period ends on the last day of your birth month, in an even- or odd-numbered year that matches the year you were born. Your expiration date appears on your license record in the Board's online services.

The Board mails a reminder postcard about three months before your registration expires and also sends an email reminder if it has your current email address. The application deadline and the expiration date are the same day, so renew by midnight on your expiration date. If you miss it, you must apply for reregistration instead of renewal, and practicing without a current registration carries an additional fee.

The continuing education you report must be completed during the participation period that is ending, so plan to finish your hours before you renew.

✅ How to Renew Your Minnesota Nursing Registration

1. Check your record. Sign in to the Minnesota Board of Nursing online services to confirm your expiration date and participation period.
2. Complete your hours. Finish 24 contact hours (RN) or 12 contact hours (LPN) of acceptable continuing education during your participation period.
3. Save your certificates. Keep each certificate for two years after you report the hours, in case you are selected for an audit.
4. Start your renewal. Renew online through the Board's online services before midnight on your expiration date. You can request a paper application from the Board at 612-317-3000.
5. Confirm your continuing education. The renewal application asks you to verify that your activities meet the Board's criteria. Do not send certificates unless the Board asks for them in an audit.
6. Pay the fee. The registration renewal fee for RNs and LPNs is $85.
7. Confirm your renewal. Verify that your registration shows the new expiration date, and keep your certificates.

✅ What You Will Learn

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the RN and LPN roles in medication administration under the Minnesota Nurse Practice Act
• Identify the high-alert medications on the ISMP acute care list most relevant to your practice
• Use independent double checks, barcode scanning, and smart pumps, and recognize their limits
• Monitor and safely manage anticoagulants, insulin, sulfonylureas, and concentrated electrolytes
• Assess and respond to opioid-induced sedation and respiratory depression, including naloxone use
• Respond to a medication error, including disclosure, Minnesota reporting, and just culture
• Recognize how implicit bias can affect medication and pain decisions

✅ Course Content Overview

The course is organized into three one-hour sections, each with six subtopics:

Section 1 (1 Hour): Minnesota Scope of Practice, Clinical Pharmacology, and the High-Alert Medication Concept

• Minnesota Scope of Practice and the Nurse's Role in Medication Administration
• Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Principles That Change Bedside Risk
• What Makes a Medication High-Alert: The ISMP Acute Care List
• Error-Prone Steps in the Medication-Use Process and Joint Commission National Performance Goal 14
• Independent Double Checks, Barcode Scanning, and Smart Pumps: What They Catch and What They Miss
• Patient-Specific Risk Factors and Implicit Bias in Medication Decisions

Section 2 (1 Hour): Anticoagulants, Insulin, Oral Hypoglycemics, and Concentrated Electrolytes

• Heparin, Low Molecular Weight Heparin, and Warfarin: Monitoring and Reversal
• Direct Oral Anticoagulants, Antiplatelet Combinations, and Anticoagulant Transitions
• Insulin Safety, Concentrated Insulin, and Hospital Hypoglycemia
• Oral Sulfonylureas, Older Adults, and Potentially Inappropriate Medications
• Concentrated Electrolytes: Potassium, Phosphate, Magnesium, and Hypertonic Saline
• Sterile Water, Hypertonic Dextrose, Tranexamic Acid, and Oxytocin

Section 3 (1 Hour): Opioids, Sedation, Neuromuscular Blockers, Equitable Pain Care, and Responding to Medication Errors

• Opioid Safety in the Hospital: Sedation, Respiratory Depression, PCA, and Transdermal Products
• Opioids Combined With Benzodiazepines and Other Depressants, and the Role of Naloxone
• Moderate Sedation Agents and Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
• Equitable Pain Assessment and Treatment
• Responding to Medication Errors: Patient Care, Disclosure, Minnesota Reporting, and Just Culture
• Medication Reconciliation, Care Transitions, and Patient Teaching for High-Alert Medications

✅ Other Minnesota Nursing Courses

Build the rest of your hours with these courses:

• 24 Hour Minnesota RN Complete Renewal Package – $34.99
• 12 Hour Minnesota LPN Complete Renewal Package – $24.99
• 4 Hours Diabetes Management - Minnesota Nursing – $24.99
• 2 Hours Patient Safety and Medication Errors - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Infection Prevention and Control - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Pain and Opioid Safety, Minnesota PMP and Naloxone - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Minnesota - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Cultural Humility, Implicit Bias, and Health Equity in Minnesota - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Nursing Documentation and the Minnesota Health Records Act - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Nursing Ethics and Professional Boundaries - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Alzheimer's and Dementia Care - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Palliative and End-of-Life Care and Minnesota Health Care Directives - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 2 Hours Reporting Abuse and Neglect - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99
• 1 Hour Minnesota Nurse Practice Act and Professional Accountability - Minnesota Nursing – $14.99

✅ Why Choose 1st Choice CE?

• Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (CEP 18292)
• Courses built to meet Minnesota Board of Nursing CE criteria
• Affordable pricing: only $19.99 for 3 contact hours
• 100% online and self-paced
• Log in and out anytime without losing progress
• Instant emailed certificate
• Money-back guarantee
• Over 10 years of continuing education experience
• Support by phone or text at 1-800-698-2770

✅ Enroll Now

Get 3 contact hours toward your Minnesota RN or LPN renewal for only $19.99. Enroll today, work at your own pace, and receive your certificate by email the moment you finish.

Questions before you enroll? Call or text us at 1-800-698-2770.